Hey guys, I have a weird problem with the vray displacement modifier and I'm a bit dumbfounded. I am sure to 99% that I am doing something wrong but no matter what I try, I can't get rid of the issue.

I rendered a 32 bit vray zdepth of the White House and I simply want to use it do displace some sort of coin imprinting.
32bit, 16bit, TIFF, PSD, HDRI loader... I always get those bit depth problems into the surface. What am I doing wrong?

The 32bit zdepth is just perfect. The circular lines come more from the zdepth itself as it represents an object in perspective and therefore each point on the front wall has a slightly different distance from the camera I used to render the zdepth. The range of the zdepth should be fine. It covers the White house form front to back perfectly so the whole range goes into where it is needed.

It looks to me that no matter what you feed into the vray displacement modifier, it gets red as 8 bit. Which would be really weird. There must be something else I am doing wrong.

Andre, have you confirmed whether vray is reading all displacement maps as 8-bit? I haven't seen this problem before, but if that's the case, it's a massive oversight, and it would be worth letting the developers know... I'm beta testing for Chaos Group at the moment so I can raise this as a problem if it's definitely an 8-bit disp problem and isn't coming from somewhere else. Having said that their support on the Chaos Group forums is very good so you might want to ask there...

Thanks for all the input, I really appreciate it. It turns out it works all fine when I directly render the zdepth out as an EXR. What I did before was writing out a tiff file which caused the problem. When I take that exr and load it via the vray hdri loader, it works and the steps disappear. I knew the error was on my side you never stop learning!

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